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When Should One Take Zyloric? NEVER! You Should Go For Other Options...


The timing of taking medications can mean relief and pain for a gout sufferer. In fact, it can mean life
and death to some! Imagine, if only one has taken Zyloric as he found out that he has hyperuricemia. Probably, he/she will not end up suffering from gout.

This article aims to answer the question “When should one take Zyloric?”
Should one take it regularly? During gout attacks? When hyperuricemia sets in? Or maybe. . . NEVER?


When Should One Take Zyloric – According to the doctors. . .

Zyloric, a brand of allopurinol which is a medicine under a category called Xanthine Oxidase Inhibitor, is usually prescribed to PREVENT gout attacks. One should also take it everyday, usually at an increasing manner. A target uric acid level is set. Then, treatment begins by a 100mg dose increasing by 100mg daily until it reaches 800mg or target uric acid level.

Understanding Zyloric
To understand the answer to the question “When should one take Zyloric”, we should understand how Zyloric works.

Xanthine Oxidase Inhibitors help lower uric acid but only TEMPORARILY. It disrupts the production of uric acid by stopping purine from being broken down. It pretends to be purine so that the enzyme xanthine oxidase will attempt to break it down instead of breaking down actual purine. This way, no xanthine oxidase is left to break purine down into uric acid.

Sadly, purine will not be flushed out without breaking it down into uric acid. Hence, purine will accumulate over time. Your uric acid may be lower for now, but your reservoir of “soon-to-be” uric acid is gradually expanding. Sooner or later, it will give you a rush of uric acid to give you severe gout attacks!

Taking Zyloric BEFORE Gout Attacks
If you have been suffering from gout for some time, chances are your doctor prescribed allopurinol along some pain relievers usually colchicine. Sadly, allopurinol has been known to cause severe gout attacks. Hence, taking Zyloric will not prevent gout attacks.

Taking Zyloric DURING Gout Attacks

Spoiler alert: once again, this is not the answer to the question “when should one take Zyloric”.
Why? Because Zyloric will worsen your gout attack! It will pause the production of uric acid but once all Zyloric in your body is used up, the liver will catch up by trying to break all the existing purine down. What a purine-fest!

Taking Zyloric When you Find out You have Hyperuricemia

Once a person finds out he has hyperuricemia, Zyloric (or any other allopurinol brand) is prescribed in order to lower the level of uric acid. This avoids gout and uric acid kidney stone. But is this the perfect timing to take Zyloric? Probably. First, this will help but as time passes by you will find Zyloric doing more harm than the relief it gave. Just when you thought your uric acid level is low enough, there goes the complications of hyperuricemia. Once you stop taking Zyloric, uric acid will rush in because of the unprocessed purine! This further boosts the occurrence of gout attack and uric acid kidney stone.

Instead of being gradually flushed out, uric acid is excreted all at the same time. This increases the ratio of solute to the solvent. Hence, it is easier for uric acid to crystallize. The crystallization process will lead to gout and uric acid kidney stone.

Take Zyloric once every. . . .  ETERNITY

Zyloric will not help much. You can take it every once in a while, but relying on it will damage your body in the long run. It is not ideal for curing gout, hyperuricemia and uric acid kidney stone. If you fail to treat your uric acid problems while Zyloric is in effect, you are in for trouble. The existing uric acid + the uric acid from the purine you suppressed = wanton destruction in your body.

The worst part is, Zyloric can inflict horrifying side effects (emphasis on horrifying).
Take a look at the picture below and it will tell you everything.
That is the result of Steven-Johnson Syndrome, a side effect of Zyloric.

Good Read => Long Term Side Effects of Zyloric
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